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On a leisurely afternoon walk one summer day Ella and her five-year-old daughter come upon an abandoned house with an eerie overgrown garden. For the attractive young housewife and her imaginative child, the old house conjures up fantasies of grand parties and bygone fashions. But in the midst of their reverie they hear a horrible, throaty scr... more »eam and, from a second-story window, see the spreading white wings of an owl taking flight.« less